This is the first comprehensive picture of the nomadic and formerly nomadic hunting-gathering groups of the Borneo tropical rain forest, totaling about 20,000 people.

Foreword (Kirk Endicott) 1. Introduction: Borneo, Hunter-Gatherers, and Change (B. Sellato and P.G. Sercombe) 2. Penan (Rodney Needham) 3. Resourceful Children of the Forest: The Kalimantan Punan through the Twentieth Century (Bernard Sellato) 4. The Emergence of the Ethnic Category Bhuket: Diversity and the Collective Hunter-gatherer Identity in Borneo (Shanthi Thambiah) 5. The Punan from the Tubu' River, East Kalimantan: A Native Voice on Past, Present, and Future Circumstances (K.A. Klimut and Rajindra K. Puri) 6. Stuck at the Bottom: Opportunity Structures and Punan Malinau Identity (Lars Kaskija) 7. Nested Disputes: Building Mediation Procedures for the Punan in West Kalimantan (Mering Ngo) 8. Game, Pets, and Animal Husbandry among Penan and Punan Groups (Stefan Seitz) 9. History and the Punan Vuhang: Response to Economic and Resource Tenure Change (Henry Chan) 10. Continuity and Adaptation among the Penan of Brunei (Peter G. Sercombe) 11. Penan Ethnobotany: Subsistence Strategy and Breadth of Knowledge (Robert A. Voeks) 12. Prior Transcripts, Divergent Paths: Resistance and Acquiescence to Logging in Sarawak, East Malaysia (J. Peter Brosius) References Contributors Index